Author: Nichols Martin|| Date Published: January 12, 2021
CAE‘s (NYSE: CAE) U.S. subsidiary will continue to help the U.S. Air Force train pilots and boom operators of the KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft under a potential eight-year, $275M contract.
CAE USA will provide simulation and classroom training services to more than 4.5K military tanker crewmembers each year, update trainer equipment and support a boom operator simulator system designed for Air National Guard, the company said Tuesday.
The recompete contract has a one-year base period along with seven option years.
Cardinal Point, CymSTAR, Delaware Resource Group and FAAC serve as the teaming partners under the KC-135 Training System program.
USAF first selected CAE USA to be the program’s prime contractor in 2010.
Locations of work on the KC-135 Training System program are as follows:
Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma
Bangor Air National Guard Base in Maine
Eielson AFB in Alaska
Fairchild AFB in Washington
Forbes Field in Kansas
General Mitchell ANGB in Wisconsin
Grissom Air Reserve Base in Indiana
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii
Kadena Air Base in Japan
Key Field in Mississippi
Lincoln ANGB in Nebraska
MacDill AFB in Florida
March ARB in California
McGee Tyson ANGB in Tennessee
McGuire AFB in New Jersey
Phoenix ANGB in Arizona
Pittsburgh ANGB in Pennsylvania
Rickenbacker ANGB in Ohio
Ronald Wright ANGB in Utah
Royal Air Force Base Mildenhall in the U.K.
Scott AFB in Illinois
Selfridge ANGB in Michigan
Sioux City ANGB in Iowa
Sumpter Smith Joint National Guard Base in Alabama
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